Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer
German Northern Renaissance painter & engraver
born 1471 - died 1528

Also known as: Alberduer, Duro Tedesco Alberto, Alberto di Dura, Dureño Alverto, Albert Durer, Albert Duur.

Student of: Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528).
Teacher of: Hans Baldung (1484-1545).

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
-- Dürer, Four Books on Human Proportions, 1528

Dürer, Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]--d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist, generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.

Born in Nürnberg as the third son of the Hungarian goldsmith Albrecht Dürer. Began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest known work, one of his many self portraits, was made in 1484. Died in Nürnberg in 1528.

Self-Portraits
Portraits
Other engravings
Biographie en français
During 1513 and 1514 Albrecht Dürer created the greatest of his copperplate engravings: the Knight, St. Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia I--all of approximately the same size, about 24.5 by 19.1 cm (9.5 by 7.5 inches). The extensive, complex, and often contradictory literature concerning these three engravings deals largely with their enigmatic, allusive, iconographic details. Although repeatedly contested, it probably must be accepted that the engravings were intended to be interpreted together. There is general agreement, however, that Albrecht Dürer, in these three master engravings, wished to raise his artistic intensity to the highest level, which Albrecht Dürer succeeded in doing. Finished form and richness of conception and mood merge into a whole of classical perfection. - Albrecht Dürer oil painting antique, Durer oil paintings - antique Albrecht Dürer oil painting Germany, antique oil paintings Albrecht Dürer Bio by antique oil painting Albrecht Dürer of Germany Albrecht Dürer oil paintings antique.

La Fete du rosaire (1506). Tempera a l'huile sur bois, 162 x 192 cm. Prague, Galerie nationale.
Crucifiement (Musee de Dresde)
L'Adoration des Mages (Uffizi, Florence, Offices)
Martyre des 10000 chretiens en Perse (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienne)
Adoration de la Ste Trinite (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienne)
L'Empereur Maximilien 1er (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienne)
Vierge a l'enfant (Louvre, Paris)
Le Monstre Marin (Gravure)

Dürer and German Portraiture
Albrecht Dürer was so great an artist, so searching and all-encompassing a thinker, that Albrecht Dürer was almost a Renaissance in his own right -- and his work was admired by contemporaries in the North and South alike. The 16th century saw the emergence of a new type of patron, not the grand aristocrat but the bourgeois, eager to purchase pictures in the newly developed medium of woodcut printing. The new century also brought an interest in Humanism and science, and a market for books, many of which were illustrated with woodcuts. The accuracy and inner perception of Dürer's art represent one aspect of German portraiture; another is seen in the work of that master of the court portrait, Holbein.

Impressive though others may be, the great German artist of the Northern Renaissance is Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). We know his life better than the lives of other artists of his time: we have, for instance, his letters and those of his friends. Albrecht Dürer traveled, and found, Albrecht Dürer says, more appreciation abroad than at home. The Italian influence on his art was of a particularly Venetian strain, through the great Bellini, who, by the time Dürer met him, was an old man. Dürer was exceptionally learned, and the only Northern artist who fully absorbed the sophisticated Italian dialogue between scientific theory and art, producing his own treatise on proportion in 1528. But although we know so much about his doings, it is not easy to fathom his thinking.

Albrecht Dürer seems to have united a large measure of self-esteem with a deep sense of human unfulfillment. There is an undercurrent of exigency in all Albrecht Dürer does, as if work was a surrogate for happiness. Albrecht Dürer had an arranged marriage, and friends considered his wife, Agnes, to be mean and bad-tempered, though what their real marital relations were, nobody can tell. For all his apparent openness, Albrecht Dürer is a reserved man, and perhaps it is this rather sad reserve that makes his work so moving. - Albrecht Dürer oil painting antique, Durer oil paintings - antique Albrecht Dürer oil painting Germany, antique oil paintings Albrecht Dürer Bio by antique oil painting Albrecht Dürer of Germany Albrecht Dürer oil paintings antique.

The Germans still tended to consider the artist as a craftsman, as had been the conventional view during the Middle Ages. This was bitterly unacceptable to Albrecht Dürer, whose second Self-Portrait (out of three) shows him as slender and aristocratic, a haughty and foppish youth, ringletted and impassive. His stylish and expensive costume indicates, like the dramatic mountain view through the window (implying wider horizons), that Albrecht Dürer considers himself no mere limited provincial. What Dürer insists on above all else is his dignity, and this was a quality that Albrecht Dürer allowed to others too.

The titles of oil painting old master Albrecht Dürer

4  Self portrait detail face
4Self portrait at 13 by Germany oil painting and abstract art
4The Holy Family in a Trellis CGF
4The Prodigal Son CGF
5  Four Apostles
5 Albrecht Dürer Job and His Wife by Germany oil painting art paintings abstract
5 Lot Fleeing with his Daughters from Sodom
5  Madonna and Child Haller Madonna
5  Paumgartner Altar detail of central panel 2
5 Albrecht Dürer Portrait of Oswolt Krel full by Germany oil painting and abstract art
5  Sylvan Men with Heraldic Shields
5  The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin The Flight into Egypt
6  The Fall
6 Albrecht Dürer The Jabach Altarpiece by Germany oil painting art paintings abstract
6  Madonna with the Siskin
7  Christ among the Doctors
8  Albrecht The Dresden Altarpiece central panel
8 Albrecht Dürer The Dresden Altarpiece side wings by Germany oil painting and abstract art